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econ.EM2026
Auditing Marketing Budget Allocation with Hindsight Regret
Nilavra Pathak, Olivier Jeunen, Eric Lambert
Organizations routinely make strategic budget allocations under operational constraints, but often lack a principled way to assess whether realized allocations were close to the be…
eess.SY2026
Learning to Spend: Model Predictive Control for Budgeting under Non-Stationary Returns
Nilavra Pathak, Smriti Shyamal, Prasant Mhasker +1
We study finite-horizon budget allocation as a closed-loop economic control problem and evaluate receding-horizon Model Predictive Control (MPC) relative to reactive budgeting poli…
cs.DC2026
DataCenterGym: A Physics-Grounded Simulator for Multi-Objective Data Center Scheduling
Nilavra Pathak, Samadrita Biswas, Nirmalya Roy
Modern datacenters schedule heterogeneous workloads across geo-distributed sites with diverse compute capacities, electricity prices, and thermal conditions. Compute utilization, h…